Adding two women's sports part of process

7:08 PM,
Jun. 22, 2013

Clif Smart

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Title IX is leading Missouri State to enact changes that could take effect as soon as the fall of 2014: the addition of two women's sports.

MSU operates under "Prong One", known as "proportionality," to comply with Title IX. In other words, the school must carry the same proportion of male and female student-athletes as the proportion of full-time male and female students in the undergraduate student body.

Missouri State's 2012-13 undergraduate enrollment was 56.7 female. To comply with Title IX, MSU's proportion of female student-athletes must be within 1 percent in either direction of ...